Terence Beesley
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Terence Beesley (7 September 1957 – 30 November 2017)[1] was an English actor.
Early life and education
Born in London to Irish parents, he studied at the City Lit in London in 1980, and then trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Career
Television
His television work included Cadfael, The Bill, Where the Heart Is, Heartbeat, Midsomer Murders, EastEnders (as Derek Branning[2] in 1996), Casualty, Down to Earth, Plotlands, Agatha Christie's Poirot, She's Out and What Remains. He starred in Peter Kosminsky's 15: The Life and Death of Phillip Knight, and played General Bennigsen in the BBC adaptation of War and Peace.[3]
Theatre
His stage work included British theatre performances as the title role in Shakespeare's Richard III (1995) and as the Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1994) for multi Barrymore award winner director Mark Clements and his own adaptation (with Colin Wakefield) of Nikolai Gogol's "Diary of a Madman" (as a one-man play) at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Along with Jonathan Church and Jules Melvin, he was a founder of the Triptych Theatre Company. Their first production, Jack Shepherd's In Lambeth at the Lyric Studio, received much critical acclaim.
Personal life
He met actress Ashley Jensen in 1999 when they were appearing in a production of King Lear at the Manchester Royal Exchange, and they married in Big Sur, California in 2007. Their son was born on 20 October 2009.
Death
Beesley died at the family home in Camerton, Somerset, on 30 November 2017, aged 60, having been found unconscious in a car in his garage. An inquest in February 2018 ruled suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.[4]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | The Phantom of the Opera | Joseph Buquet | |
| 1990 | Strike It Rich | Croupier | |
| 1994 | Decadence | Giovanni | |
| 1999 | Human Traffic | Moff's Father | |
| 2006 | The Listening | John Strobel | |
| 2014 | Sharkproof | Armen | |
| 2016 | London Has Fallen | Fire Dept. Head |
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- 1957 births
- 2017 deaths
- 2017 suicides
- 20th-century English male actors
- 21st-century English male actors
- Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- English male film actors
- English people of Irish descent
- English male stage actors
- English male television actors
- Male actors from London
- English male Shakespearean actors
- Suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning
- Suicides in England